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Some of you may have noticed that I am sharing more photos on EO than I used to. That is because I stumbled across a neat little program that makes it a breeze to resize digital photos for easy posting here. The program is called Resizer. You can download it free at...

>The difference between Expediting vs Air Freight vs Express >Freight? >Expediting is exclusive use time sensitive with the time is >chosen by the shipper/consignee combination. There are fewer >external factors; air freighters fly on schedules and >express LTL shipments move according to...

Certainly I am not the only one out there with photos of big-sleeper expediter trucks to share. The invitation to share your photos remains open. Paul56, I am especially interested to see a photo of your truck. There are not many out there where the sleeper is actually bigger than the box.

Well, when we built our truck with an 11-foot sleeper, we could have built one with a 15 foot sleeper instead; flush mount the lift gate, use a VNM chassis instead of VNL, go with the minimum required box size of 14 feet instead of sixteen and, presto, we have a 15 foot sleeper. I guess that...

>Who is the BETTER BUSINESS MAN? > >From my LIMITED EXPIERENCE, seems to me that this business >or industry is about HAULING FREIGHT, not Household Personal >Items for the Driver. Just an observation, have been wrong >before, maybee I am again. > >Many nice trucks and many more UGLY ones...

Going through old photos, I remembered that I took a picture of that truck at Bordentown, NJ. No photos of the inside, though. I did not get to see that part. See: http://www.expeditersonline.com/dcforum/DCForumID16/1743.html

A few more.

Here are a few from my collection.

Truck photos are always fun to look at. This is an invitation to those who have them to post photos of big-sleeper expediting trucks they have seen. It can be your own truck or others, straight truck or tractor. There are a bunch of big-sleeper trucks out there. Let's see and hear more about...

TeamCaffee, Do you have more photos of that FedEx truck? I'd love to see them.

Because the CB frequencies are constantly flooded with the most foul and vulgar language you will find anywhere, we leave the CB turned off most of the time. At accident sites and traffic slow downs the CB radio can provide useful infomration but you have to listen through a flood of crap to get...

Come to think of it, we do air freight too but Diane and I have called it expediting. The air freight folks might take issue with our choice of words. The runs that pick up at an airport and deliver to a local terminal or consignee meet Terry's definition of expediting. Is it air freight too...

Here is a shot from far away. Distracting street lighting has been removed from the photo.

One of the best things you can do for yourself is identify a seasoned Panther driver or two that you have confidence in. Ask them if it would be OK for you to call them two or three times for advice. After a few runs in the Panther system, and maybe before, you will have some good questions to...

Looking at the truck in person, it appeared to me also that the frame sagged. But it could also be that the sleeper air bags were deflated. As I said, I did not get the chance to talk to the driver. I did not want to start snooping around the truck to see if it had frame liners or if the air...

>Expediting seems to be evolving to a point that any single >or multi truck company that picks up and delivers freight of >any kind, can call themselves expediters. I would suggest that the verb is not evolving but devolving. Trucking companies of all kinds have learned that "expedited" is a...

...and the back.

We only had a minute at the truck stop. I wish I would have taken a closer look at the truck. It was very dirty and the digital camera gathered in a lot of light for this nighttime photo, at the expense of image quality. Here is a closer look at the cab and sleeper.

On our way to Toronto in the middle of the night last week, we spotted this truck at a Fifth Wheel truck stop. If the drivers were inside, they were asleep so we did not bother them. It would have been fun to visit about the truck. Does anyone know who built this truck and how it is working out...

Got the truck washed and hand waxed today. They washed it and then hand waxed it from front to back, top to bottom, including the cab and sleeper roofs. Total cost: $145. The truck wash is located on U.S. 52 and State Highway 58 in Zumbrota, Minnesota, north of Rochester, south of Saint Paul.